TextStream Object

Facilitates sequential access to file.

                      TextStream.{property  | method( )}

Arguments

The property and method arguments can be any of the properties and methods associated with the TextStream object. Note that in actual usage, TextStream is replaced by a variable placeholder representing the TextStream object returned from the FileSystemObject.

Remarks

The following example illustrates the use of the TextStream object.

var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8;
var TristateUseDefault = -2, TristateTrue = -1, TristateFalse = 0;

var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

// Create the file, and obtain a file object for the file.
var filename = "c:\\testfile.txt";
fso.CreateTextFile(filename);
var fileObj = fso.GetFile(filename);

// Open a text stream for output.
var ts = fileObj.OpenAsTextStream(ForWriting, TristateUseDefault);

// Write to the text stream.
ts.WriteLine("Hello World!");
ts.WriteLine("The quick brown fox");
ts.Close();

// Open a text stream for input.
ts = fileObj.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, TristateUseDefault);

// Read from the text stream and display the results.
while (!ts.AtEndOfStream) {
    var textLine = ts.ReadLine();
    document.write (textLine + "<br />");
}
ts.Close();

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2, ForAppending = 8
Const TristateUseDefault = -2, TristateTrue = -1, TristateFalse = 0
Dim fso, ts, fileObj, TextLine, FileName

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Create the file, and obtain a file object for the file.
FileName = "c:\testfile.txt"
fso.CreateTextFile FileName
Set fileObj = fso.GetFile(FileName)

' Open a text stream for output.
Set ts = fileObj.OpenAsTextStream(ForWriting, TristateUseDefault)

' Write to the text stream.
ts.WriteLine "Hello World!"
ts.WriteLine "The quick brown fox"
ts.Close

' Open a text stream for input.
Set ts = fileObj.OpenAsTextStream(ForReading, TristateUseDefault)

' Read from the text stream and display the results.
Do While ts.AtEndOfStream <> True
    TextLine = ts.ReadLine
    Document.Write TextLine & "<br />"
Loop

ts.Close

Methods

Close Method | Read Method | ReadAll Method | ReadLine Method | Skip Method | SkipLine Method | Write Method | WriteBlankLines Method | WriteLine Method

Properties

AtEndOfLine Property | AtEndOfStream Property | Column Property | Line Property

See Also

Reference

Dictionary Object

FileSystemObject Object

OpenAsTextStream Method

Change History

Date	History	Reason
September 2010	Modified examples.	Information enhancement.